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The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell A Place inside Yourself
Title
The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell [electronic resource] : A Place inside Yourself / edited by Tahneer Oksman and Seamus O'Malley.
ISBN
1496820614
9781496820587
9781496820594
9781496820600
9781496820617
1496820576
9781496820570
Published
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 online resource.)
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Summary
"In a self-reflexive way, Julie Doucet's and Gabrielle Bell's comics, though often autobiographical, defy easy categorization. In this volume, editors Tahneer Oksman and Seamus O'Malley regard Doucet's and Bell's art as actively feminist, not only because they offer women's perspectives, but because they do so by provocatively bringing up the complicated, multivalent frameworks of such engagements. While each artist has a unique perspective, style, and worldview, the essays in this book investigate their shared investments in formal innovation and experimentation, and in playing with questions of the autobiographical, the fantastic, and the spaces in between. Doucet is a Canadian underground cartoonist, known for her autobiographical works such as Dirty Plotte and My New York Diary. Meanwhile, Bell is a British American cartoonist best known for her intensely introspective semiautobiographical comics and graphic memoirs, such as the Lucky series and Cecil and Jordan in New York. By pairing Doucet alongside Bell, the book recognizes the significance of female networks, and the social and cultural connections, associations, and conditions that shape every work of art. In addition to original essays, this volume republishes interviews with the artists. By reading Doucet's and Bell's comics together in this volume housed in a series devoted to single-creator studies, the book shows how despite the importance of finding "a place inside yourself" to create, this space seems always for better or worse a shared space culled from and subject to surrounding lives, experiences, and subjectivities." -- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2019 Complete
Project MUSE - 2019 Literature
Other formats
Print version: Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 09, 2019
Series
Critical approaches to comics artists
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: a shared space / Tahneer Oksman
Genealogies
From Julie Doucet to Gabrielle Bell: feminist genealogies of comics anthologies / Margaret Galvan
My most secret boredom: (dis)affective narrative in Julie Doucet's "A day in Julie Doucet's life" and Herge's "Adventures with Tintin: the Broken Ear" / Jessica Stark
Drawing-across-autobiography
Julie Doucet's "Monkey and the Living Dead" as subliminal autobiography / Natalie Pendergast
Ghost cats and the specter of self: telling trauma in the works of Gabrielle Bell / Sarah Hildebrand
Transgressive aesthetics
A very dirty word: cuteness as affective strategy in the comics of Julie Doucet / Sarah Richardson
Drawn to life: the diary as method and politics in the comics art of Gabrielle Bell and Julie Doucet / Kylie Cardell
Communal visions
"At this point I become real" : "experimental autobiography" in Julie Doucet and Michel Gondry's comics/video hybrid My New New York diary / Frederik Byrn Kohlert
"Everyone looks through peepholes": voyeurism in the voyeurs / Seamus O'malley
Interviews
A good life: the Julie Doucet interview by Dan Nadel
The starting point: an interview with Julie Doucet by Annie Mok
Sometimes in reality you kick the football: a conversation with Gabrielle Bell by James Yeh
Gabrielle Bell by Aaron Cometbus
A talk with Gabrielle Bell by Annie Mok.
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